Arrowfield Stud was established in 1985 under the visionary and innovative leadership of John Messara.

Traversed by the Pages River, the Arrowfield Estate comprises 2500 acres of prime land in the fertile Segenhoe Valley, near Scone in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, long famous as a source of great thoroughbred horses. The Estate includes Arrowfield Stud, Arrowfield Broodmare Farm and the Arrowfield Sales Centre. The infrastructure and facilities at all three properties have been designed and constructed to ensure the best care of all resident horses and the safety of the people who work with them.

The colt joined yesterday’s top seller, the full brother to Sebring, at the top of the leaderboard for the auction when he was sold for $1.3 million.Leading Sydney based bloodstock agent James Harron purchased the colt who was offered by Arrowfield Stud as Lot 651.

“He’s a beauty,” Harron said. “He’s a neat Redoute’s. He’s not too big but he has a nice girth and is a nice mover.”

“He handled the whole sale like a real pro. I can’t wait to get him back to Peter’s to see what we’ve got.”

“We had him rated one of the top colts of the sale and he’s by a champion sire in Redoute’s Choice. We’d pegged him as a million dollar colt, but we just hope he didn’t go too far past it.”

“A beautiful horse with a great pedigree and beautiful physique. He fits in very well with what we’re trying to do,” Harron summed up.

The Redoute’s Choice colt is the third foal for the unraced Stravinsky mare Ballet Blue – a half sister to six stakes horses and from the family of Group One winner Imananabaa.

Snitzel

The second top price of the day was $925,000 for Lot 549, the Snitzel-Ultimate Fever colt from Luskin Park.

The ChinaHorse Club teamed up with Newgate and Winstar Farm to secure the colt, a full brother to recent stakes winner Le Cordon Bleu – an exciting short course performer who runs in tomorrow’s $1 million Magic Millions Sprint.

“This was a colt we really didn’t want to leave behind,” China Horse Club bloodstock agent Michael Wallace said. “The physical attributes he has are what we really look for in a horse.”

“It’s a global game and Australia has a very buoyant stallion market and if you get the right Snitzel colt you get really well paid at the end of it.”

Here’s a Video of the 2 Arrowfield Champions

Yarraman Park

Yarraman Park has been owned by the Mitchell family since 1968 and is managed by brothers Arthur and Harry Mitchell. Both Arthur and Harry are hands on all year round and are both highly experienced horsemen who bring a lifetime of international and local experience to the stud along with vast worldwide contracts.

Another lot to attract plenty of interest was Lot 607 – Milburn Creek’s I Am Invincible half brother to Group One winner and promising young sire Sizzling.

In the end it was South Australian trainer Tony McEvoy who secured the good looking bay colt with a $900,000 bid.

“I was hoping to get him for under a million,” McEvoy commented. “If we could have got him between six and eight hundred thousand I thought he would have been the buy of the sale.”

“He’s a quality horse. I was actually under bidder on his brother Sizzling. I loved Sizzling and we just missed him and I didn’t want to miss this colt.”

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